The master plan of 5 people and 8 devices aimed at securing Minecon tickets failed. We did get into the que for over 1 hour and then was booted like all the other times. Extremely disappointing!
I’m still upset (maybe even angry) over the distribution plan for the tickets. The ticket site stated ticket sales were pending 5 seconds after the batch was issued. I’m not exaggerating. And Mojang was tweeting excited statements saying the 2500 tickets sold in 3 seconds.
I think “sold” is not quite the correct term. I’ve never been able to input my credit card number/billing address/email & contact info in 3 to 5 seconds. Neither has anyone I know.
Now I finally understand why sites use the CAPTCHA system — to make sure humans are making the purchase or filling the form; not a computer program. You would think a game developer of one of the hottest games out there would have better researched the ticket distribution partner and their process.
Looks like we’ve got a free weekend now on Nov 2nd & 3rd — kind of. We won’t be traveling to Florida. However we may attend Minecon virtually . . . . Mojang will be running live video streams. Looks like we have a Plan C.
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